One of the more powerful yet underutilized parts of the SecureCRT® and SecureFX® applications
is the Connect dialog. In this issue, we show you how to use the many options for organizing and launching
sessions. Then, in case you have ever struggled with copy and paste behaving differently in your terminal
window than in Windows apps, we have two tips on that subject. You can try out several new pre-beta
capabilities in the Calls for Testers. If user interface is your favorite part of programming, you'll
appreciate the Scripting Essentials chapter on creating dialogs and gathering user input. On the subject of scripting, the online forums are a great source for more information on how to handle changing multiple account passwords, with or without scripts.

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1. Tip: Maximizing the Value of the Connect Dialog--------------------------------------------------------------------

The Connect dialog for SecureCRT and SecureFX is built around named
sessions allowing you to configure, save, and recall a number of
session options. With the Connect dialog, you have several
straightforward ways to organize and manage sessions that can save you time and effort, especially if you connect to many hosts, or run shell and file transfer connections to the same server.

To read more about how to maximize the potential of the Connect dialog, read the full tip online.

Two classic productivity tips for SecureCRT have been revised,
giving you a perfect opportunity to make sure you know all you need
to about copying and pasting in the SecureCRT terminal emulator.

SecureCRT has a number of ways to copy and paste to and from the
terminal screen. One option allows you to use familiar Windows
copy and paste keystrokes in the terminal window. "Use Windows copy and paste hotkeys" is turned off by default because some
users need to send control sequences like CTRL+A, CTRL+C, CTRL+F, and CTRL+V to the remote.

Terminal or Linux console users have probably developed some timesaving X-Windows habits as well. With SecureCRT, you can keep the X-Windows behavior. The "Copy on select" option automatically
copies emulation window text selected with the mouse to the Windows
Clipboard.

To read the complete copy and paste tips, please visit the Support
section of the VanDyke Software website:

This month's scripting installment from VanDyke Software Support
is entitled "Getting Information from the End User". Chapter 6
of the Scripting Essentials guide expands on the InputBox ("fill
in the blank" type) and MsgBox ("Yes/No/Cancel" type) functions. Also covered is the InternetExplorer.Application" ActiveX object, a more powerful method, which uses HTML code displayed through
Internet Explorer.

The "Getting Information" chapter also shows how to use regular expressions, which are a means of identifying patterns in a string of alpha-numeric text. Regular expressions are useful
for tasks such as validating a user-supplied IP address.

The practical example for Chapter 6 provides instructions and
full source code to create a custom input dialog to enter the
username and password.

VanDyke Software development continues to seek users to test new capabilities in pre-beta releases. This month we are looking for users to preview and give us feedback on keyword
highlighting.

Keyword highlighting makes available a user-specified list of keywords for real-time highlighting in a session. The capability can be used to highlight session elements
like a user prompt, errors, and IP addresses.

If you would like to test and provide feedback on the new
keyword highlighting features, please send e-mail toMaureen.Jett@vandyke.com.

Also available this month for preview and feedback is a pre-beta version of SecureCRT with the ability to use an encrypted password from within a script. Encrypted passwords can also be saved to session .ini files from within a script.

Ready for pre-beta testing in the VanDyke ClientPack is VRALib, an API that allows you to script SSH2 connections from Windows. The API functions can be called from VBScript, C++, or any scripting platform that supports COM.
Operations supported include:

With rigorous password policies now a fact of life, we all have plenty of reasons to make those regular password changes
as easy and seamless as possible. Two recent forum threads address passwords.

First is a post from a SecureCRT user on updating multiple
passwords quickly from the Connect dialog and Session Options.

Next is the post from forum user rleon, who wants to use
SecureCRT to change passwords on a large number of servers.
Several possible solutions are discussed, including setting
encrypted passwords from a script using a pre-beta version
of SecureCRT (see the call for testers above, "Using Encrypted Passwords in Scripts").

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8. New and Current Releases
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The official releases of SecureCRT 6.2.2, SecureFX 6.2.2 and ClientPack 6.2.2 were made July 2, 2009.

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